Creativity Quotes

Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.

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"Creativity blooms where fear does not take root."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Creativity is the bridge between thought and reality."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The power of imagination shapes our destiny."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Creativity knows no bounds."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"A writer should never be fully satisfied with what he has written"
Knut Hamsun
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"To create is to rebel against the ordinary"
Knut Hamsun
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of making meaning."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Less is more in matters of the spirit and creative vision."
Robert Browning
"The creative act is an act of faith in possibility."
Robert Browning
"Creation requires destruction of what came before."
Robert Browning
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"Everything from my hand turns into a fairy tale."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"A soul without passion is a winter without end."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The power to imagine is greater than the power to achieve."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Creativity flows from a heart unafraid to be different."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"To create is to suffer, but not to create is to die inside."
Knut Hamsun
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"The creative act is an act of resistance."
Knut Hamsun
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"To create is to live twice—once in the doing, and once in the remembering."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Every genuine feeling finds its expression in genuine art."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Every brushstroke is a confession of the heart."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"What we create reflects what we truly believe about the world."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"What we think determines what we create."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"I write to understand the world and myself within it."
Knut Hamsun
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"To create is to suffer and suffer is to create."
Knut Hamsun
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"The greatest magic is being yourself."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Creativity is the language that needs no translation."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"A revolutionary moment in the history of culture is when the dream reveals itself."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints, because they are driven to. Well, we create by living our lives."
Søren Kierkegaard